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Tuesday | TezDay
Recorded: April 29, 2025 Duration: 1:14:09Space Recording
Short Summary
Skirpy is set to revolutionize the NFT landscape by merging social media with a marketplace, aiming for significant growth and user engagement on the Tezos blockchain. With plans for a public launch and a focus on community-driven features, the platform is positioned to become a leading dApp, attracting users from various blockchain ecosystems.
Full Transcription
Thank you. All right.
Are we good? It's today one of those weird days where it works the first time, and I think we're good.
Yes. I got the heads up straight from the horse's mouth. I appreciate you. All right.
Welcome back to Tuesday, Tez Day. I'm Blanks, here with my co-host Kryptonio, and tonight we're excited to introduce you to a new project that's been making some waves.
place, part social platform, built on Tezos, self-funded, and aiming to rethink how artists
and collectors connect and create without relying on legacy social media.
Tonight, we'll be talking about how the idea for Skirpy came together, what makes it different,
what makes it different, and where they're hoping to take it.
and where they're hoping to take it.
But before we get into that, let's catch up on some of the latest from the Tezos world.
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All right, well, that's the latest.
Now let's bring on our guest.
I see him down in the audience.
Let's get him up here.
Let's invite him to speak.
I know that's the tough part.
Tonight we're joined by Skirpy,
a platform that's blending social features and NFT discovery in a new way.
Thank you for being here.
Let's start simple.
For someone hearing about Skirpy for the first time, how would you describe what it is?
What's up, Blank?
What's up, my man?
How are you?
Welcome, welcome.
Sorry, I just got rid of the questions.
I like it.
I like it.
Yeah, today's the biggest day usually of the week.
Not guaranteed, but it's Tezo's Tuesday, so I am running around like a chicken without
my head trying to keep the art good on the marketplace when you go there with super
quality art and constantly refreshing when stuff sells out. So doing my best to manage that and
obviously jump in here. But I would say Skirpy is an all-in-one social media and NFT marketplace.
And I think that just simply describes it, right? You have social features like posting, messaging,
group chats, and then you have the ability to actually deploy your own smart contracts, maintain full ownership, and then interact
with the marketplace.
So buy, sell, list, auction, offer, all those fun things in one place.
So I always thought it was kind of needed.
I got bored of just going to NFT marketplaces and doing the same thing.
I think there's a lot more to the artist, to the collector, to the person using the platform than just the art. You know, there's so much layers to them.
You know, maybe they're good at writing. Maybe they are a rapper on the side. Maybe they like
to dance, right? They could post about these other things in their life outside of just the digital
collectibles. So in my personal opinion, the future of NFTs is social. And I think, you know,
we're doing our best to obviously drive adoption. And we're, you know, we're doing, we're doing our best to obviously drive adoption and we're, we're, you know, doing, doing everything we can right now to get as many
people as we can on Tezos, finding out about Tezos, interacting with Tezos. And yeah, I'm
super pumped about where we're at blanks and Kryptonian. I appreciate you guys.
All right. Well, thanks. That wraps it on. I'm totally kidding. That was amazing. Great answer.
What now? Okay. So Skirpy, I'm sure it's sort of,
I feel like this might have been one of those aha moments.
Correct me if I'm wrong,
but did it seem like it was more born out of frustration
with existing platforms,
or was it excitement about trying something new,
or maybe a mixture of both?
No, people don't know this,
but this has been a process over many years.
So there was an
original scurpy.com but it was built on wordpress with no web 3 functionality so in 2021 you were
able to just sign up and uh post a link to your open sea or your foundation or wherever you were
selling your art at the time um and so that original idea was just basically a place you
can go and post about your nfts for sale and. Because early on in NFTs, I was going to like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, trying to find out more about NFTs, trying to find out more about the artists and collectors.
And I didn't really have the ability to message them or ask questions.
And I just always thought that it was super important.
So it started with that.
And when you build with WordPress, obviously, you don't know.
And when you build with WordPress, obviously, you don't know.
The code is super heavy and inefficient.
So no major marketplace or platform would be built with WordPress for a dynamic content,
which means content you really can't predict, right?
So we don't know what's going to be uploaded on the social feed.
You know, it could be a video.
It could be a post of a photo.
It could be just regular text.
So you wouldn't have a WordPress website for dynamic content.
So it was built incorrectly.
And the code was super heavy a couple of years ago. So I had to make the decision of, I had a huge user base of 20 to 40,000 users, a bunch. We sent them an email before we launched
invite only inviting them back to Skirpy. But anyway, the original Skirpy was just WordPress,
super simple. You would sign up with your email. There was no web three functionalities. And
over the years, I made a ton of artist sales and would host Twitter spaces
all the time. But I just found like, damn, I didn't have a marketplace. I didn't have something
for people that I can actually interact on the blockchain with. So this has been many years in
the making. And, you know, we try to build this as efficiently and as possible, really, because
it's important to do so, not just burn capital, right? To do this the right way. So, and I'm super pumped about being kind of the last mover. I've seen everyone else
launched before me, all the gamified marketplaces, all the art marketplaces. I've seen them go out
of business. I've seen the pro trading platforms and, you know, being last has given me the
advantage of being able to put together a gamified platform, a platform that's awesome for artists, that's awesome for content creators, that, you know, if you're a collector,
you can come to Scurby, earn points, earn points for mining every day, trying to bring people back
to the platform, inviting. So I think it's a totally new experience that people aren't used
to in the NFT world. They're super used to just going to a platform. But once again, this isn't
like a platform, right, the second, obviously, for like PFP projects on Ethereum.
This is a platform. There's so much more to the people on Tezos, right?
Each creator is individually unique.
So I think it's important that they have their own profile that they can post about things that are going on in their life and also have super low fees.
And most of the money goes to the artists and give them full control of their assets.
And this has been many years and you're finally seeing the fruition of it.
And obviously, when we launched it in ByteAle to start, it was slow. give them full control of their assets. And this has been many years and you're finally seeing the fruition of it.
And obviously when we launched it and by only to start, it was slow.
Certain parts of the site weren't perfect. And we work at a rampant pace trying to fix the site.
So if you go to it now, you'll see the marketplace is fast.
Social media is fast.
Messaging's fixed.
Notifications are fixed.
So we constantly will just keep optimizing different parts of the site till we're ready.
And yes, a million dollar question, when dark mode, we will implement a dark mode.
We're working on it.
So yeah, and I'm super pumped about honestly doing the public launch because I just expect
it to grow from there.
Once we do a public launch, there's just going to be, you know, anyone can come to Skirpy.
They'll be able to buy our art.
That'll increase sales.
That'll bring more eyes to Tezos.
That's only good, you know, so I think we're doing, I wake up every day.
I don't make a salary, I wake up every day fully incentivized to make this thing successful
with a fire in my heart to get as many people as I can onto Skirpy and to use it. So if you're on
Tezos, I'd love for you to give us a shot. I promise you, you know, if you don't like it,
it's all good. But it is pretty fun. And you hear notification noises. It's just kind of a crazy,
fun little experience. And you can make a group chat there. And you hear notification noises. It's just kind of a crazy, fun little experience.
And you can make a group chat there.
And there's definitely some cool stuff on Scurpy that I don't see anywhere else.
Like you can transfer NFTs to your friends with just their username on Scurpy.
There's just a lot of cool, fun stuff that I think is super important about the future of NFTs.
I don't think the future of NFTs is about what we've done in the past.
I think it's about being more and more social and connecting at a deeper level.
So that's my vision of NFTs.
And I could be wrong, but so far, the traction has been great.
It's the number two DAP on Tezos, and it's an invite-only mode.
So I'm pretty pumped about, obviously, opening it up to the whole world to use.
I think that with new products and making the product better, it could be the largest
application on Tezos.
And I look forward to making Tezos hopefully one of the more respected larger layer ones.
That's my goal is to make this thing great and bring attention and bring eyes and do everything I can to make this successful.
So, yeah, man, I'm here to – you've got to kill me to take me out, man.
I'm fucking coming.
I'm sorry for cursing, but I'm coming.
No, that's passion.
I love it.
You've got to have some passion to fire.
He's spitting it up.
I'm just vibing.
I appreciate it, man. This is great. So let's, this is just me being curious and nitpicky, like blending a social network, sort of a social platform and then adding a marketplace. That's not easy to blend, you know, not really. So how did you guys decide like where to start oof um well that's a good question and i'm sorry i don't know if you can hear the birds and stuff
but i just went outside if there's birds man it's better it makes it more real i remember
moving sorry i'm gonna segue here i moved down to phoenix and i would call my wife and she's like
what is that noise in the background and birds because we don't have birds where i come from
it's a city you know you know i have birds but anyway i sit inside a lot obviously running
scurpee so i birds are good brother birds are great go ahead what was the uh question again
i'm sorry so blending a social network like a social media platform and a marketplace that's
i mean trying to figure out like the line,
cause it's difficult. I mean, you're like, how, where did you guys start?
Well, remember we had the original old scurpee.com and that was just a rolling feed. So you would
post on that and it would just show the latest posts. Right. So I always knew that that wasn't
what I wanted because I wanted to be able to filter through trending, through the people I'm following.
And it's also nice to see the latest posts.
So I knew that from the original Skirpy, I didn't want to just have latest content.
We needed to have it so that you could see what's trending.
You could see people you're following's content, and then you could see the latest content. So from that point of view, that's the general scope of how, you know, we're displaying the content.
I think it's important that you could filter through that stuff.
And it's only going to get better.
So right now it's kind of basic, you know, the home feed.
But yeah, mixing it is hard because if you guys don't know, Instagram implemented NFTs
a couple of years ago for like two weeks and then they got rid of it.
But they were on to something.
Unfortunately, they were, I think, doing it through Polygon.
And, you know, it's very confusing, Polygon, a couple of years ago. So it was kind of difficult,
but they were onto something. These digital assets, socially, there's something to it.
I'm telling you, Blanks is like a person that hosts these spaces. Like, you are so much more
than, obviously, you're not an artist, but if you were an artist, like, you have so much more than
that, right? Like, you're a host. You could be posting about your podcast, you could be posting about, you know, every week,
your schedule for these, these Twitter spaces, there's so much more to Skirpy than just an NFT
marketplace. And I think that's so important that we're not just known as an NFT marketplace right
now. We are an NFT marketplace. That's primarily what we do, but longer term, I'd love Skirpy to
be the number one, you know, crypto application across all of crypto. I think that all in one
place you go to, to deploy your smart contracts for, you know, it across all of crypto i think that all in one place you go to to deploy
your smart contracts for you know it could be your collection could be a token um and then you
have the ability to obviously buy sell and then socialize in one place i don't see it elsewhere
and instagram did do it for two three weeks blangs a couple years ago but then they pulled it um i
don't know if that was because expenses or i don't know if that was i think that was zuckerberg unable
to create his own coin and he was Zuckerberg unable to create his own coin.
And he was like, I need to have my own coin if we're going to do this.
I'm not going to do this on their coin.
It's got to be my coin.
That's what I think that was.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I think that he knows that, you know, it probably can't be his coin.
He's already rich and he already has a public company that's super valuable.
So I think that he knows it would have to be used on some sort of, you know, decentralized blockchain if he wanted it to be successful.
But I think that there's there's cost to it. Right. Like they have to recruit artists.
They have to get collectors. They have to. Well, wasn't his sister real big into NFTs, too?
I mean, I don't know if you know much. Yeah, his sister.
I believe his sister was one of the founders of Hug XYZ, I think it's called.
It was basically a couple of years ago.
I looked at it like, damn, that's a rival to Skirpy.
You were able to have all your different stuff on all the different marketplaces in one place,
but they had no Web3 functionalities to it, at least to my knowledge.
You weren't able to, they didn't have a marketplace there or anything.
So anyway, that was the original threat of Skirpy.
I saw that and was like, damn, you could put your stuff on Foundation,
your stuff on Object, your stuff on wherever,
all on Hug, for example.
And anyway, they sold out. I think
they sold it. It got acquired by
.art domains or something.
And now it's barely used
or I don't see it very often. Oh, that's not good.
Yeah, so anyway. Yeah, keep going. Sorry.
Zuckerberg was on to something with these digital collectibles
because these creators these people you see like you kevin that i am telling you i don't know the
answer but there's something to the digital asset i'm not talking about the art part i'm talking
about the content creator part um there's something to that and i think it's going to be tapped into
and that's going to be the next bull run for nfts it's going to be socially somehow with these nfts are we going to have like social credibility based on on market movement like actual people
who are really traded and then the botted uh the botted influencers you're like oh those are the
bot guys they they just want to look cool on chain the new analytics will be your on chain movement
of your token i think there are projects doing that I think Ethos is doing stuff like that.
So, yeah, I mean, obviously, there's things going on right now.
The technology only gets better with time.
And the price of stuff, you know, goes down, it goes up, it goes down, it goes up.
But the technology of these blockchains, the dApps on these blockchains, you know, if they're still alive, will only get better and better.
So I like to ignore the price, and we just keep building and building and building.
And eventually, hopefully, we give everyone on tezos a great product and also hopefully we can get people from other blockchains using scurpee and
obviously that will benefit tezos right we're getting people from avalanche getting people
from solana and getting them onto scurpee because we don't have any other blockchains we developed
on right now it's tezos only the only thing you can do is sign in with your metamask on um ethereum
but that's just because
the social media part, we don't want people to not or an email. We want people to come to Skirpy
and be able to obviously sign up and use it that are from any blockchain. I think it's really
important. But then obviously, all the interactions are going through the Tezos blockchain right now.
So I think this is our plan to get as many people as possible onto the site. It would be awesome
to get obviously a Solana wallet login,
an Ethereum wallet login, get a couple different blockchains,
get them using the social media part of it,
because the social media part is also gamified.
Everyone has their own level.
And, yeah, it's an ambitious project,
but, you know, I think you got to just shoot your shot.
You only got one life here, Blanks.
Yeah, that's very true, man.
It's very hard.
If you're not pouring yourself into it, too, how strong of a strong of a commitment really are anyway sorry we're getting deep and esoteric
so for someone just jumping into scurpee like today like they just they're jumping in this
space they were like oh dang there's a lot of people in there let's find out oh hey there's
this weird slushy thing and it looks like 7-eleven and and what is it how what can they do that feels different compared
to your typical NFT marketplace I mean you could go to Skirpy right now follow a couple people you
know follow a couple of your friends you could message them you could have a group chat with a
couple of your friends you could post on the feed a picture of you post in this space right now if
you wanted blanks and then obviously you could buy some NFTs or sell some NFTs.
There's so many different things that you can do.
And every time you get a notification, you get this little ding noise, which is really, really addicting and fun.
So I think that you would be pleasantly surprised.
And it will only get better.
So if you log into Skirpy today or if you want an invite, you know, Blanks, I don't know if you – I think you are on Skirpy.
You have invites. I don't know if you have invites. I have a fewpy you have invites i don't know i have a few invites left i do i do i do so you can reach
out i will maybe share if you're worthy no i would love to have you all come i'll just post it down
in the comments and pin it up here and invite link and we want you guys to use the invites it's
something that we're failing at is uh is getting people to use the invites as much as I want.
Those invites, you get 20 invites right now, and you can mine every day on Skirpy every 24 hours.
But your invites that join, you get 10% of the points they mine.
So you'll actively see in the leaderboards, the mining part of it, you'll see who mined actively in the last 24 hours and you get 10 of the points they mine so the idea is to try to get people coming back every single day
to scurvy to socialize to mine um and to obviously interact as much as possible on the on the uh
application uh on that note uh scurvy may ask like how exactly are the points used what they are like
may ask like how exactly are the points used what they're like uh what's the goal behind them to get
as many as possible like you you level up and you get more exposure or like how does it work
right now the points are just the leaderboards in the future we'll see what we do with the points
nothing's guaranteed but um i think it's important that it's gamified the social media is separate
from the actual marketplace leaderboard so you'll have your own social profile, which if you see next to your name on Skirpy is the level.
So level eight, level five, level 10, there's achievements on the site, like get five likes
on your Skirp or get 10 likes on your Skirp, stuff like that. And you get an XP and you level
up your social profile as you use it. And then you have the marketplace where this is where you get
the points you see in the leaderboards for mining and inviting, creating and collecting. And right
now in the future, we'll see what we do with those points. Right now we're invite only, but, um, you
know, I do have some plans for some pretty cool stuff in the future with the points. And I think
it's important that, you know, we try to reward our users in the future, obviously. And, uh, yeah,
that's the plan. I'm literally logged on over here,
getting ready to post an image for your,
your,
your,
give me,
give me,
if I got Kryptonio,
do you have a question?
Maybe you can ask it while I finish what I'm doing.
I mean,
he got me in the middle of where it is.
Yeah.
I could ask you about like the,
the social side of it.
And because you know, the social platform a huge part of it is the algorithm,
which usually is the most complex thing to work on, as far as I understand.
How does it work compared to Twitter,
where people try to basically take advantage of knowing how the algorithm works to get more exposure?
Like, how complex is the algorithm on Scurpy on that side?
Well, the algorithm is always subject to change, right? So you can always make it better
and people will always try to game different stuff. So you always have to try
to keep that in mind, that everything you give to people that
everyone enjoys, there's always going to be someone keep that in mind, that everything you give to people that everyone enjoys,
there's always going to be someone out there that tries to game it and take advantage of it.
So the algorithm is always subject to change.
But, yeah, I don't really want to talk much about the algorithm because people will try to game it.
But, yeah, there's obviously –
That's bad.
Yeah, what's the secret?
Like, is there a secret keyword I got to use?
Just the image.
Do I do up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B-A?
You know that one?
Does that one work?
Do I get 30 extra lives?
This is more stuff on our side.
Like, I don't love to talk about, you know, about, like, obviously, like, we have people that try to attack the website, spam the website, write, you know, racist bad things, and we have to ban them.
And so all this stuff has actually led to us creating systems that could remove and detect.
And so it's only makes us stronger and better.
But yeah,
the algorithm will just constantly be,
be changing and becoming better and better with time.
But right now you'll see,
if you see trending,
you'll see it's all the post trending.
And then if you see following,
it's your friends that you follow on Skirpy and then you'll see latest,
you'll see all the stuff latest.
So the algorithm actually works pretty good right now,
but yeah,
it could definitely be improved and be better.
I like it.
I have a dark mode override for my browser.
So I'm safe from your blinding UI,
but I feel others may suffer.
Well, no, I'm kidding.
This is beautiful.
I love what you've done here.
The layout is nice. It's rounded. It's familiar. But you know, it's really fun too.
It's really fun to actually have something useful on that right, like that right bar,
instead of a bunch of crap that just kind of you ignore the whole time you're using it,
like every other platform out there. Anyway, sorry, i'm just totally critiquing your your platform live i love it um so i'm gonna kind of shift this a little bit why tezos what made it
the right fit for launching a project like this like tezos why tezos oh man there's tons of reason
why tezos well tezos has in my opinion the most super users pound for pound, right? A super user is someone that interacts with the blockchain an exceptional amount.
So buying, selling, minting, listing, you know, Tezos pound for pound.
You know, if you really look at the user base, let's say it's much smaller than Ethereum, but pound for pound, you're having people interact with the blockchain way more.
So, you know, at a deeper level.
So for me, it's always about that.
That's most important.
This is where the artists are who are our core users.
And yeah, the rolling node allows you to actually track the blockchain basically in live time
and be scalable.
And there's a ton of reasons to develop on Tezos that we like versus developing on the
larger other blockchains.
So yeah, I would say that's why.
I mean, and honestly, there's not many other people developing on Tezos.
So if you can actually develop a really good project and have a good community, you have
a chance at building an actual useful DAP on the blockchain versus putting it on a larger
blockchain.
There's tons of competition and fierce, fierce amount of money against you.
So, yeah, that's why I would say we chose Tezos. And I've been on Tezos for years and years buying art, you know, four years or
whatever, buying NFTs and spaces, whatever, a long, long time. So, you know, I've known about
Tezos since they were supposed to be on OpenSea and it didn't happen. And, you know, it's been
around for a long time and it is a, it is a major layer one that doesn't really quite get the respect
that maybe it deserves. And i'm hoping that we can help
help people find out about it that are on the larger layer one because i have a lot of friends from you know the bigger l1 nft projects and stuff and i don't think one of their holders
and stuff are even on tezzo so if we could just get one holder from each of those projects it
makes a difference but i'm sure we'll get much more now was there anything about building on
tezos that surprised you like it was surprisingly surprisingly easier or maybe you found some questions that you couldn't quite bash your head through or anything? Like, did you experience anything like that while building this?
that are difficult, like maybe tracking the blockchain. It has to be always reliable because
people are using the marketplace. So if a node ever goes down, even for 10 minutes, there are
people that interact on Scurpy that buy, sell, list, and then we won't actually capture that
in that timeframe the node was down. So you have to make sure the node's reliably tracking the
blockchain. And there are difficult stuff with that. Sometimes a node can go down while you're
sleeping from 3 a.m. to 7 a. and you know it would be nice to have a backups
in place that we have two nodes running and kicks in if one goes down so that's stuff that we would
like to improve on but um no i would say that's the most difficult stuff is the blockchain stuff
and and being and building it in a bear market and building it when no one's talking about it
or cares about it you know that's the hardest part is is to continue actually with the belief of actually fulfilling what you wanted to do right like it's
it could have easily just given up at any point and said ah you know i'm done but um i'm very proud
that we we stuck to it and kept doing it and now we're here and you know look it's uh it's working
and i'm very excited about the future and i'm super pumped about obviously uh the present day
and how many artists are making sales.
It's been like six or seven thousand sales for artists.
Today should be our biggest day ever.
I think there's going to be hopefully something around over ish 3000 Tezos.
I'm not sure yet because there's still eight hours in the day in volume.
So, yeah, it's super exciting about obviously creating something that's used on the Tezos blockchain that's interacted with a ton and
gives people something new to do. Because a lot of the problems with a lot of these coins and tokens
is there's nothing to actually do with it, right? So I'm super pumped that you can actually come to
Skirpy on Tezos. You can sign up with your Temple wallet or Kakai wallet. You can message your
friends. You can message. You can group chat. And then you can buy, sell digital assets to each
other. So that's just the beginning, right? We're going to be much more than an NFT marketplace
long term. So yeah, that's where we stand we stand blangs and i'm super pumped to be
here and uh you guys get me going man i could stew for a while i don't get to stew very often
my goal is to get you to just kind of like expound because you're going to explain it the best you've
got the passion and i'm vibing i'm over here just nodding and like yes yes i love this i mean
you're you're saying things we've all said.
We've all said them to each other.
We've all said we need this.
This is something that it's, but it's tough to encompass.
It's tough to grab.
It's tough to put lightning in a bottle, isn't it?
Absolutely.
I mean, that's the thing.
It's very tough to put lightning in a bottle.
It's almost impossible, Blanks.
It's hard to get a community together of people
that are going to actually use something,
a social media, and a marketplace in one
and to sign up and to spend money to create a collection
and to buy and sell.
It's a crazy thought.
But the future of NFTs, I'm telling you, Blangs,
is going to be social.
It's something to it.
We're social creatures.
It has to be.
I'm with you, 100.
I'm sorry, I keep cutting you off i'm such a
i'm a jerk i'm sorry you got me all passioned up right here vibing now brother you're stepping
into like the tezos nft scene that already has a huge strong history what is scurpy hoping to
add to that story um a ton i think Skirpy can make a huge impact
on the Tezos art scene.
I think that there's a ton
of different contracts and stuff
that we can make custom contracts
to do different things
if you're an artist
that you don't have the capability of right now,
which gives you full control of your assets.
You know, that's one.
And I think that our fees
give more money to artists.
Our fees are significantly lower than the other marketplaces or the major marketplace, at least
on, uh, Tezo. So I think you save more money as an artist, you have full control of your assets.
And in the end, deploying your own contracts gives you full control of your art that you could list
on, on other marketplaces. So that alone for an artist and, and the most important thing of it
all blanks is I care. I'm the founder and CEO of this. I show up every day. I show my face. I retweet. I engage. I post. I buy. I'm here. I believe in NFTs. The NFTs have been my life for a very long time.
being as honest and fair as possible.
I swear to you, I comment on all these artists' posts,
I'm up 24-7, I'm the help, I'm the support.
It's just a grassroots effort that that's what's making it special,
that's what makes the lightning in the bottle is that,
is the fact that everyone steps up in the community.
And I don't think you'll find another marketplace that's launched.
And also the hardest part, Blanks, is the cold start,
is actually starting a marketplace from zero,
because it's hard to get people to go there,
trust it, put their stuff on the website.
That's the actual hardest part is that cold start part.
So I'm very happy that we've gotten past that cold start part.
It's been over a month now.
We did 42,000 or 43,000 Tezos in volume last month.
And yeah, I'm just super pumped about the future.
I have plans for other products and things to do. Remember, it's not just the NFT marketplace. So that's what'm just super pumped about the future i've been plans for other products and things to do remember it's not just the nft marketplace so that's what i'm super pumped
about is like let's get this thing safely floating you know it's reliable it's fast it's fun to use
it's awesome and then we could worry about other stuff to do to grow to grow the platform and
and obviously get people stuff to do on tezos. Because right now I'm on Tezos.
I look at DAP radar.
I'm like, there's not much for us to do.
And I think that's a shame because how are we going to be competitive against the other layer ones if there's not much we can do?
It's impossible.
Sorry, I had to cry there.
Now, you do address very important points, and I totally agree with you.
If we don't have the quality dApps, we're not going to show up on DappRater.
We're not going to be in the faces of people.
And sadly, these metrics, they may just be vanity metrics, big picture.
They may not mean anything, but they do give a sense of security comfort and confidence and i think like you said
the cold start that's a lack of confidence you may have the security because of what it's built on
because it's decentralized and we can audit it but it's the confidence thing and how we feel
and you just pounding it with your uh pounding it with your um, I guess, is all I can really say.
It means so much more.
Now, what is your short-term focus then?
Is it getting users?
Is it adding features?
Are you looking at partnerships?
What is the short-term goal right now?
I would say the short-term goal is still getting users in the invent-only mode,
getting them familiar with how the platform works. That's really important is, you know,
we keep farming users from the other blockchains. So that's something I've been really trying to
concentrate on is, you know, I see these other blockchains ripe with users that are only using
those blockchains and maybe not on Scorpion. I just think there's so many users that we could pick up that those other hot marketplaces or other hot dApps that aren't so hot anymore, that aren't so
active, you know, I'm going to come in and do my best to get them over onto Skirpy. You know, so
I think that, I don't know if I answered your question there, but that's something I look at
is trying to grow our user base, obviously, and try to get collectors excited about being on
Skirpy, right? It's gamified, man.
You earn points for collecting on Scurpee.
And not only that, man, we do collector spotlights,
so I showcase the collectors
and show them as much love as I always can
because I think it's important that we shine a spotlight on them.
It's not all just about the artists.
The collectors are coming to the platform,
supporting so many different people.
So, you know, I think just being personable goes a long way, Blanks.
It's, you know, it's... Well, know, I think, uh, just being personable goes a long way, Blanks. It's, you know, it's, okay. I agree, man. 100. You've, you've been nothing but polite and you've responded to me every time I've reached out. It's been an absolute pleasure. You've been
busy and I completely understand that. And, uh, it's just been, it's been a pleasure interacting
with you this whole time. So I do want to say thank you for that. Now, if you could imagine Skirpy like a year from now, what would a thriving community look
like to you? And this may include maybe a vision or something we're not quite like aware of,
if that makes sense. You know, like you, you obviously have a perspective on this thing
that is way further out than us just looking at you going, where, what do we get out of it? You
know? So where do you see it? a year if this thing was just thriving?
What would it look like?
Oh, man.
These are some good questions you got.
Did you think about these before the space,
or these are just hot off the press?
I may have prepared a few questions for you, sir.
I may have.
I have to think about it.
I can't just answer it. You've got to give me a second. Oh, that's fine. Yeah, think about it i can't just answer it you got to give me a second
oh that's fine yeah think about it please because uh i mean i the vision i have for a lot of these
things i don't think are the visions that a lot of the people who see it have it or even the people
who maybe have created it or founded it and that's the beauty of these things is i do believe they're
a lot bigger than a lot of us even even the people who come up with them can see.
And that's where we find key people who in our lives just push us to do these extra things that we never would have.
And all of a sudden it becomes something that we never could have dreamt.
So I'm very curious where you kind of see this thing in a year.
Well, in a year, I could guarantee you
that our user base is more
and the product's way better.
And yeah, I think that in a year from now,
it'll be a significantly better experience.
He'll have night mode.
He said it in a year.
No, no.
Well, he'll have night mode.
You know, the user experience is something
that we really want to
clean up. We want to make it a little bit better
for the user. There's a lot of things that we can do
that we haven't had the time to actually
hone in on. Like, on your profile,
you know, it'd be cool if you could, you know,
do small stuff, like pin a couple of
the NFTs you collected to showcase.
Stuff like that, right? Like, just
smaller things that you might not think
mean a lot that actually do mean a lot.
Just clean up so many different parts of the site that give everyone a more better user experience.
And also, I would say in a year from now, we'll have other products on Skirpy.
You know, that's the goal. It's not just going to be an NFT marketplace in social media.
I move very fast. You know, right now we're obviously just launching invite only mode, but I think the public launch will, will bring significant attention to Skirpy and more eyes from people
from other blockchains, from this blockchain. And obviously the ability to actually enter Skirpy
without having an invite, you know, that might help us with getting people that were maybe
opposed to using Skirpy or, you know, didn't want to use it because it was a link, they had to click,
whatever, right? Like that's going to help us getting, and your art will show up right on,
right on X and you'll be able to tweet it when you collect. And I think that experience is just
going to keep getting better and better for the artists for sure. And there's just going to be,
you know, hopefully a year from now, more contracts that they can deploy that gives them
more custom, custom ability. You know, they can customize different stuff, like maybe,
you know, a blind, blind mint, stuff like that, right that. We have the ability to actually write these smart contracts and do it,
so we're going to try our best to do it, but we just need time.
We have a small team, and I haven't raised money yet.
It's got to be done now.
No money got to be done.
Some days it feels like that, though, doesn't it?
Yeah, this is my story of my life.
I wake up, I don't make any That's how I mean. Yeah, this is my story of my life.
I wake up.
I don't make any money.
And I get yelled at from people.
We've made like 7000 sales for artists.
And I'm just like, whatever.
My plan is to just fucking keep this going and make this crypto app. I do not care.
You have to kill me, Blames, to take us out.
I am going to.
I'm not.
I don't.
No, my goal.
No, I'm not.
I'm pushing you forward.
I'm not pulling you back.
I'm not dragging you down.
No, I know that. I'm saying my goal is to get as many people onto Skirpy as possible. And ultimately, that is going to get more eyes on the Tezos blockchain. But I tell you, I wake up, Langs, I'm crazy with a fire in me to get as many people on it and to make as many sales as possible. And I swear to you, nothing else matters to me. I was a pro fighter.
I don't know if you guys know that, but my name is Timmy Halby.
I have pro fights and stuff.
You can see my jiu-jitsu matches online and stuff,
and that's my life is going 100%.
Gracie?
I used to train at Gracie Baja, but I switched gyms to a more professional gym
later in my grappling career.
But anyway, I fought on the biggest stages of jiu-jitsu and
stuff and you know it's very intense and you wake up every day and you train like an animal and
you know you fight you fight some of the toughest guys in the world and you know sometimes you you
lose but you know you try never to lose you try to you try to win 99 of the time you know that
was always my plan of jiu-jitsu but you still get hit don't you win or lose that's why that's why
not necessarily not in jiu-jitsu but 99 of the time
blanks that's that was always my mentality was you can never win 100 of the time right you can
always just get choked or mess up and lose but if you could win 99 of the time then that i was okay
with that if you could just win 99 out of 100 you know that's okay and that's how i wake up every
morning it's like i gotta win today i have to win today and get as many sales for artists as possible get as many users as possible get as many collectors
as possible and you know it's uh i think that side of scurpy is what people don't see is you
know and some people do see it but yeah that is the hardest part is that part i would say is
actually having to do that stuff right it's easy to just say i don't want to do that and go get
chipotle but uh you know i don'totle. But I don't do that.
Apparently Chipotle has given away 50,000 free burritos and Roblox.
Try explaining that to your parents.
Timmy, if someone's turning in and they're turning in right now and they're thinking, I want to explore Skirpy.
What's the first thing you'd recommend they try once they get in?
I would just say scurp.
Just write something and put it on the feed.
Just be like listening to the Twitter space, scurpy guys crazy,
happy to be on the platform, whatever.
Then you'll get some random people that will respond to you,
and you can follow them, and it just starts there.
And the next thing you know, you're interacting with the Tesla's blockchain,
organically, naturally, the way I think that the future of NFTs ands and crypto should be all right so let's have a little fun here i got i got some fun ones for you if you're
ready let's say scurpy had a vending machine at like a live event what's popping out are we
talking about nfts stickers something weirder like like rainbow goo like oh i mean it could be a mix
i mean it could be nfts it could be
i have stickers too and i don't know could be uh could be a mix
i'm just envisioning this like slushy looking vending machine that spits out stickers it'd
be so weird looking like cool but man that would be fun anyway sorry now here's another one for you
if you could collaborate with like any musician or artist in the world to create a launch collection,
who's your dream pick?
It could be living or dead. You could even say Mozart, and I wouldn't be mad.
Oh, man. I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe like 50 Cent or something. Something hard we come out with for launch.
I like that. I like that. Okay that okay go shoddy it's your birthday
i like it okay all right so okay and then finally when i was little when i was when i was in middle
school i remember like in like a lost and found or something there was or not the loss i don't
remember i remember i had like an arctic camo g unit like jacket and it was like you know remember g-unit so i had this like i
remember call of duty modern warfare 2 there was arctic camo and it was whatever so i had an arctic
camo g-unit jacket and i remember thinking it was the uh coolest thing in the world i'd probably
give it i still think it's the coolest thing in the world brother
so okay this will be the last weird one, and then we'll come back around.
But finally, if you could sum up the spirit of Scurpy in, like, three words, what would they be?
Fun, loving, caring.
I would say everyone's, you know, pretty, pretty fun.
Everyone shows love and everyone might be a lot of the same.
Everyone does the, the, uh, exceptional job.
Everyone does above and beyond what they're asked as a normal community member of any
app or application or website.
Everyone steps up.
Everyone helps out.
It's a, it's something special.
I don't know how else to describe it.
I like that, man.
You got me all warm feeling over here.
Like, I'm vibing in full energy, but that was just like, oh, heartstrings.
You got me.
You got me.
I don't know how you did that.
Now, you mentioned that Skirpy is self-funded.
Has that changed how you've approached growth or feature prioritization at all?
Well, I'm thinking about now maybe raising money and stuff but uh besides that i've
gone through a couple grant proposals and stuff so we'll see but i would say no i i scurpee runs
very lean and i don't take a salary right now and scurpee just runs super lean blank so i would say
we're not bleeding out like you would think how expensive
usually platforms cost and stuff because we try to make everything as efficient and optimized as
possible um because we don't want to just be burning money over here we want this to make
sense and for us to be you know here a long time and so yeah i would say that we're the best
basically at spending money than anybody pound for pound you know we built this with a couple people and uh so i'm very proud of what we've done and you know uh yeah i would say having like a
share structure and you know incentivizing employees with shares and stuff and that that
stuff which no one cares about here but yeah i would say uh it's definitely allowed us to make
a product at a cheaper price than I would say usually.
Now, Timmy, how do you think NFT discovery needs to change? Is it curation, algorithm, social input, or is it something else altogether?
Some tough questions you got from me, Blanks.
I like to think sometimes before i answer i don't
like to give you bad answers i i appreciate people who think before they speak i really do because
there's a lot of people out there who don't think before they speak and it becomes very clear once
they open their mouths so we appreciate people who think before they speak i fall into the second
category a lot yeah nft discovery is a tough one right like getting discovered is like the hardest part of an artist or a creator's journey is actually getting discovered so um yeah i think that's also
part of the reason why i like the way scurpy set up and it can be better but right like like i said
somebody that maybe your art isn't maybe you're not vincent bango right maybe you're not picasso
but maybe you're really funny on the feed and writing posts
and being a content creator. And, uh, so I think giving people the ability to sell their art or
their content by more than just, I mean, obviously being really good at art is, uh,
is something that's not really being tapped into. Right. So I think that discoverability,
like you, maybe you're just really, really, really uh maybe you're an awesome poet right
maybe you maybe you just write the dopest gm posts on all of twitter and the funniest gm posts right
like that person then can have an nft collection and make some tezos by just having a collection
right there so i think that yeah that that kind of unlocks a ton of new revenue for a lot of
creators if they just really look at scurpee and say huh you know i am on twitter all the time and
i can just have a little collection for people.
And maybe if they have to hold your NFT,
then you can join your group chat on Scurpy.
Simple stuff like that, where then you can talk to
your loyal holders or whatever right there.
Yeah, just that whole new
layer of
social. Like I said, I think I believe
in Chloe.
Now before we go on,
I totally sprung one on you.
I normally ask before I do this, but for the last 15 minutes,
we like to open it up for questions.
Red is like, I got something we got to share.
And so I brought her up.
If that's all right with you, Skirt, or Timmy.
Wait, you got something to share that I don't know about, Blanks?
No, no, no.
I was saying you have something to share.
You put your hand up.
You requested.
We accepted. We brought you up. You have something to to share you wouldn't do that if you didn't no i actually usually try to ask questions but like i also respected the kind of ama format
but i just thought i didn't know at a certain point if you had said oh it's time it's time you
opened it it's time now red okay go um i think that one of the things, I do have a question, but I also have a comment.
I think first comment is that I think what is different about what you're doing is monetizing the whole content creation aspect in conjunction with the art aspect and sort of changing this toxic narrative around the fact that I've even seen some dumb people posting things
on Instagram saying, fuck content, I make art. And it's like, bitch, you literally just posted
content right there. And there's all kinds of content creation. And so Skirpy was mentioning
about maybe you're funny, maybe you're this, maybe you're that. And what I like about what you're doing here is you are combining the two elements because whether or not some people want to admit it, like the social aspect is important. We're social creatures. We're not just making art underneath a rock.
the social aspect with the artistic aspect
is something that's much needed
and something that we need to change the narrative around
and you're absolutely the person to do it.
I mean, I don't just hear the passion in your voice.
I'm on the phone.
I can feel the passion and the discipline.
I can see it.
I don't know about you, but I can see it.
I can see the waves and the aura.
I can see it.
Are you creating a game for him,
Blangs?
No, no.
But if I was, I wouldn't tell you.
Okay, that's right. You wouldn't tell me.
But I think my question is more
also around the other blockchains
because I also
probably would love to talk more with you offline about what you're
doing just because for those of you who don't know, I'm not a dev.
I actually came into this space just as someone,
somebody who promised that the blockchain could solve all our problems in the
broken music industry. And what happened when I got to blockchain? Uh, you know,
it's, it's five people making a living in web two,
just generally speaking. And I got to web three and I'm like, wow, it's five people making a living in music. It's wow. It's not too much different, but you see a lot of these problems
and you're tackling them, you know, with the reality of the social stuff. But like one thing
you brought up that is super interesting. You were talking about cross chain and because interoperability
is not just a new hot topic. It's something that's on everybody's minds. I'd like to understand a
little bit more on your goals with interoperability, because it will probably lead me to want to go
down a rabbit hole and a rabbit hole that I hope actually leads you to
the pot of gold that you want. Is he rugging? No, sorry. I just, I was just, I loved your take
and I was just listening. And thank you, Red, by the way. Yeah, I would say that right now,
obviously we're Tezo-ric and i think it's
awesome and you're able to log in right now with other wallets like a metamask and you can actually
message with somebody that's on tezos right now so you can log in with a metamask wallet and then
message with someone that logged in with their temple wallet or kakai wallet so that's kind of
cool and uh yeah in the future i mean we haven't even started or thought about really developing
anywhere else.
We're really super focused on being hopefully number one one day on Tezos and building awesome
stuff for people on Tezos.
So I'm not even thinking about it.
People ask me all the time.
Guys, it's a lot of work to even run right now on Tezos, like I said.
So, you know, I am as Tezos-centric as a person can get.
So I am all in centric as a person can get so I am I
am all in right now on Tezos and yeah maybe in the future we will support
other blockchains because that would be good for Skirpy that would be good for
Tezos as well potentially obviously because people may be on Solana don't
know about those people on the theory I don't know about Tezos and you bring
those people in and find out about Tezos and they wouldn't know about Tezos so I
think it's really important that aspect of it as well.
That would be awesome for Tezos if Scurpy was a super app used by Ethereum, Solana
and Tezos users.
That is the most awesome, best exposure
it could ever have.
And Tezos is where I started.
So yeah, long-term, maybe.
But right now I'm thinking about Tezos
and building on Tezos
because I have plans that I want to do on Tezos
outside of just the marketplace,
other cool things that you can do.
So yeah, I'm here to build on Tesla's L1.
We know how to build on it, obviously, and we're getting more and more comfortable building.
So it's only going to get better, the products and the products we have right now.
I love it.
Timmy, you have energy that is, you can feel it.
It's palpable.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Speaking on my behalf, I can't speak
for anyone else, but I know that things like this, passion projects, things that people pour their
heart and soul into, things that end up finding cracks, they fit into the cracks of our lives,
because our lives have to keep going even if this thing doesn't. And you have pushed this as,
but it really does feel like the most important thing
that you've got going on right now.
And if that's how you feel about it,
I mean, I need to use this thing.
I'm sorry.
That's the kind of passion we're looking for.
Like, it's tough to find the folks
that are not standing behind the products
that they're selling.
I don't know.
We see enough of that.
When we go to the grocery store
and we try to go to the deli to buy cheese, they already don't want to talk to us. So I don't know i've seen we see enough of that when we go to the grocery store and we try to go to the deli to buy cheese they already don't want to talk to us so i don't know man you're you
gotta get on it blanks i'm telling you it is way faster than when we initially launched it you can
i i did i put up a picture i've already got a like tavo liked it and threw up some fire yeah
i'm getting interactions your your platform's no joke. I love it. Your algo's working.
It's fire.
Thank you for doing this.
And people don't really know this,
but there's like 120 people,
something like that,
logged in,
130 people sometimes live,
probably like right now.
I'm not looking right this second,
but a lot of people use it
and are using it.
You're not seeing the interactions
on the Tesla's blockchain,
but they're using the social part of it.
There's been like
almost 100,000 scurps or something already in the first month.
That is amazing.
No. So that's the stuff that people don't see on the blockchain on Tesla's, but the eyes
are going to be there. I'm telling you, if we just make it more and more social and keep building it and making
it better and launch it to the public, I think it has great potential. And if you're an artist that's early
on it or a collector that's early on it, you know, you guys are the ones that are, that are reaping the benefits. We did 43,000
Tezos in volume the first month. And I only plan on working harder and making more sales and getting
more collectors on the platform and making it better with more features and things to do. So,
you know, it's a lot we can do. I mean, don't quote me, but I look at stories. I think stories
would be super dope stuff like that on Skirpy, right? Where like, you'd be super cool.
You know, we're not even thinking about this right now.
But like small little cool things like that, that would be really fun on the social side
that we don't really have the ability to do in the Web3 space.
So I don't know.
But you kind of just build.
And as you build, you just make it better as you go, right?
You kind of ship it and go and try to fix it.
When we launched it, it was slow.
And we had to optimize different sections of the site and make it better. And, you know? You kind of ship it and go and try to fix it. When we launched it, it was slow and we had to optimize different sections of the site
and make it better.
And, you know, that's made us a better team.
And, you know, ultimately,
like all these things we've had to do and deal with,
it's just going to make us better and better.
And hopefully we'll be able to make
some awesome products on Tezos.
Well, it's been great watching this unfold.
I do remember how slow it was
the first time I interacted with it.
It wasn't to its own fault. It's just the nature of a new project there's going to be hiccups no i've just brought
up to the stage kevin uh and para kevin will let you uh go ahead and have uh have at it first how
are you guys welcome welcome good how are you doing fantastic super fantastic but i'll get better
how how are you liking how this Skirpy sounds?
I'm loving it.
Oh, yeah.
I remember Skirpy for, like, I mean, this is a genuine community that's been building for years and years.
I remember back in, I don't know, it was back when I first saw it, and then back when I kept seeing it, but it was growing. And yeah, it did remind me like in the same vein
is that at the time was at Hug.xyz
and this idea of like, because yeah,
I remember the first generation of NFT marketplaces.
Well, I mean, still, I mean, you could say
things built by devs that are dev centric.
They're going to be thinking in terms of contracts first
and then those entry points. that are dev-centric, they're going to be thinking in terms of contracts first,
and then those entry points, and then afterwards, like the user experience is thought of,
which is fine, I think, for very utility-based things.
But once you start to build a community and you react to a market that's initially been percolated, you can start to see things from a user-first point of view and start building the stack that way.
I think that direction works so well.
In a way, it's not the same thing,
but we saw it as object as a response to eket.nook.
It was obviously object.bid before and they thought,
oh, another way that people would want to do things
is auctions.
So then they made the auction contracts.
But then when they became object.com,
it was more about starting from the user first
and what they want to do.
They aggregated all these different contracts
from different, like you could do the Calumet contracts
on object as well.
You could do the Tesla's contracts.
You could do the, what were some of the,
the Bazaar one, a couple others, yeah, smaller ones.
They were all integrated,
but the focus wasn't making these contracts work.
It was getting the user experience right.
And at that point, eventually,
it came to the point where people were like begging Object, can you make your own minter contract because we use object for everything else that's
uh you know we want to mint here too and then that's when they did so i think that's the that's
such a great way and of leading towards a platform that will continue to be successful like you'll
know they'll respond to the market because that's what they were born on. So I'm excited to see what comes of Scurp because this is such a big pool as well.
There's so much more room for growth.
And I think this cycle at its peak will be over 10 times larger with more participants than last.
That's always been the case because just the groundwork has been laid that much stronger, that what's needed to scale to another 10 times what it was before
is that much easier.
There are veterans of the craft that can keep pushing for it.
So, yeah, yeah, very exciting things.
And something that we don't really talk about enough
is that one of the more powerful products we have, Kevin,
is the smart contract deployment of the more powerful products we have kevin is the uh the smart
contract deployment tool we have right the ability to deploy your own smart contract from that tool
you know that thing can be used for other stuff stuff in the future that's like a contract factory
we call it where you know you could deploy contracts for many things in the future um
that are you know pretty cool things you can do from it. So like tokens you could deploy, no code.
Then you could do maybe prediction markets on your own, right?
So you can get kind of crazy
if you want to just develop crazy, crazy, crazy stuff
on the L1 like that from that contract factory.
So yeah, it's kind of cool that, you know,
there's not many people here that are actively building.
So I'm hoping that people see Skirpy, see the success that you can have on Tezos by being grassroots.
I know it's a lot of effort and time to build a product and it's tough to get eyes on it and it's hard to get community.
But it is possible.
I, you know, I, you know, I swear to you, it's possible.
You know, I didn't have, I didn't spend any money in marketing.
The only money in marketing I've spent is just buying some NFTs on Skirpy.
And I bought a lot of NFTs.
I bought like 400 NFTs in my personal account,
but nothing compared to the 7,000 that have gone through it.
So it is possible to do it.
And it is hard to build a product.
And it's hard to get people to interact and to do stuff, I know.
But if there's a will, there's a way.
You guys hear it in my, I swear to you. I wake up every day for you guys.
If you're, you're in here, you want me on your team and I promise you, I'm going to
do everything I can.
And also the thing about Skirpy is like, you know, objects, not a rival of ours.
You can come to Skirpy and literally post a link to your object NFTs on the marketplace
home feed.
We have plenty of people that do that.
that's the cool thing about scurpee is the whole i feel like you would want people to do that
That's the cool thing about Skirpy is the home.
I feel like you would want people to do that.
we people all the time come to scurpee and use our contract deployment tool and their collections
show up on object right because we're all fa2 standard and we show up on object as well the
scurpee nfts and then they could say hey i'm going to list three on object and then i'm going to you
know seven on scurpee so we see a lot of that so there's a lot
of different ways that that contract deployment tools use that's that's pretty awesome so far
that's awesome now para it's been a minute i apologize you're up here uh did did you have a
oh and also i'll say hi to hash i believe it's hash in the test stones we'll get to you in just
a second sir para para welcome welcome how are you hello hello it's been a while i haven't heard any of you
it's nice to hear you i have a couple of my usual uh misunderstanding questions for scarpy
um i minted my first nft on scarpy last week and i was uh looking for a license uh thing like we have an object or teia that we choose the license we use
uh is that available i see there's not nothing available while minting addition nfts on the
contract we can pick a license if we want to to give it for reprints or whatever also I read it's a little
bit hard to find the terms of use to be honest it has something about intellectual property and content rights, which I don't really understand.
Some clarification there on what happens on our intellectual rights while meeting an NFT would be great, at least for me.
I'm Greek, sorry, if I don't understand the English terms very well.
But yeah, that was my question.
And please, we need a support person or a support
form where we know that it will be answered if we have a problem, something so we don't bother
mentioning you on if we have a problem or a question or a misunderstanding somewhere.
Yeah, hey, what's up? You can look at the terms of service and you'll see it there.
I believe users...
Yeah, the terms of service, I was looking at them while logged in.
They were invisible.
I found them while I was minting, tried to mint an NFT right now now try to find them and then before i log in they are there underneath the
create account thing not a visible link like i'm half blind but i i was looking for it and i found
it yes they are there but not very visible for everyone okay yeah noted noted power x no um yeah For everyone. Okay. Yeah. Noted. Noted, PowerXNO.
Yeah.
Thank you for that.
What was the other question?
The other question was about the license on object, for example, or TAO.
We can pick from different customized licenses.
On TAO, we can customize a license type where we can mint under.
And I'm on the minting page of addition contract right now,
and I can't find something like that.
In the terms of service, it also says it.
It says...
By using the intellectual property and content, that one.
No, users grant Scurpy a non-exclusive royalty-free license
to display and promote their content on the platform.
Mm-hmm.
So we cannot specify if we want to give something for monetization
or something different while minting it?
No, not currently.
No, I'm sorry okay
no no problem just asking because i always have those questions when i try to
to use a new place and they need to know so to to understand how it works better thank you
but please a support form and the support person we have a telegram with the help chat are you in there no no no not able to use telegram my phone doesn't have a room for
another app on computer it doesn't work for some reason i don't know what's going on with it it's It's okay. Maybe a form linked, if that's possible, from a place,
help something from the site.
It could somehow send you a message if someone has a problem
if that's not really difficult to link somewhere there.
All right.
Sounds good.
I like it.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Somehow, for the web users or the stupid users like me
to be able to cry help easily you know
oh we love you potter thank you thank you for like laying it out there too. You're willing to just ask the hard questions. I do ask the hard questions.
I'm becoming unlikable for them,
but I know that there are questions
that might turn off fires before they come out.
Yeah, you're putting the smoke out
before it turns into a full-on blazer.
Exactly.
We love drama on Tezos,
and it's a shame not to be able to foresee things
that might be thorny for some people.
And it's the same because I know Scarpy all those years,
and he's been trying,
and it's a shame to receive the same kind of drama without reason.
I mean, just for for no one can foresee
what might bother people i can but we can always build a foundation on stone that's helpful
that's my point that if we don't work together uh we're missing out
well thank you p. Is there anything else
you wanted to ask before I move on to
Hashbrown?
Did I rug? I feel like I rugged.
No, I can hear you. No that sorry yeah okay then i guess i didn't hear your part are we good i'm sorry no you're still here i said okay good all right
wonderful uh it it believes hash brown hash brown is that you hiding under test stones
yep yep yep i came from the other space welcome welcome did you have some
questions for timmy how's it going um honestly just uh i was a little late because we were coming out
of a test tones work meeting um with potta great greatest question asker ever um i've just seen
your your name around i didn't really know what you were building much uh i just i just appreciate
your your attitude your energy. It's pretty infectious.
Seemed like a cool dude. Also, I have a friend that's pretty deep in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu,
so I might message you to see if you know him because it's a weird small world and that'd be
funny. But yeah, just wanted to big you up. Seems like you're doing cool stuff. I'm looking forward
to checking it out a bit, maybe finding synergy between you know our project we got we have like a sports league for artists we've created and what you got going on over there
so much love thank you my brother and uh testone it's an honor man to meet you i just followed you
so it sounds dope i like what you're doing gamify art i think it's super important that we do that
it's very fun make it a fun experience as well.
So it sounds like you're doing some cool stuff to make sales and help artists out.
So dope.
Para, I see your hand.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out now.
Sorry, I'm having practical questions.
Scarpy, what's the biggest size of a file we can upload? I haven't noticed that, to be honest, and I haven't checked.
20 megabytes.
20 megabytes.
And with Testones, I'm a Testones member, and we need collections.
Will we be able to have collections under a contract for collections
and music pieces and stuff?
What do you mean you can have collections on Scurpy.
You deploy your own smart contracts on Scurpy for a one-on-one collection,
an edition collection, and an open edition collection.
You maintain full control of all those collections.
They're your collections.
You mean we can make an addition collection for each season we have
because we are like an athlete sport we have seasons every now and then yeah you can do that
you can create a new collection for every for every season if you want season one collection
season two you just deploy a new smart contract with that contract factory tool i talked about
and then you'll be able to actually have your assets. And if you wanted to,
you could put some on the other marketplaces
if they display them, right?
The Scurpy stuff.
And then it gives you that super powerful flexibility.
Obviously, we prefer you obviously sell stuff on Scurpy.
It helps us as a company,
but we want to give you full control of your assets
where you could put them anywhere to make money.
them anywhere to make money because it's ultimately a super powerful tool that we're giving you guys
Because it's ultimately a super powerful tool
that we're giving you guys
that you should take advantage of.
And what was the other thing we were asking?
You asked about MP3 files.
Yeah.
So, yeah, we would love to have MP3 files on Scurpy.
We're just, again, that's like a dark mode thing for us.
We know that we want MP4.
Or music files in general.
Yeah, .wav, all that stuff. Yeah, we're goingp4 to just music files in general.
All that stuff. Yeah. We're going to have to dig into that. Well,
we will do that eventually too. I promise you.
We want to have that as a revenue stream for Skirpy and we want to give the artists, obviously musicians and stuff, that ability. And, uh,
I think it would be cool.
Some people do animated pieces that make noise and crazy.
I want to have all that, but yeah, we just got to get to it.
We just got to get to it. We're just working as hard as we can.
Because you know, Tez Tones is going to be
the biggest music
thing on Tezos.
We're mean to
steepen it and manage
to do it even 100 years pass by.
I know. We'll just develop as fast as we
can now. So we're just doing everything
as fast as you can.
You have to deal with us
grumping about music
music we want music representation i promise we want to have it too i want for the next 99 years
yeah it's something that's a necessity i know it's it's something that's it's on that priority
list of things i know that we really really want to have um for sure i mean that would be awesome
okay thank you very much thank you very much. Thank you very much.
And thank you, PowerX, for coming up here
and asking questions that would make a founder squeal.
I like it.
Oh, yeah.
She's good, isn't she?
I know I can be disliked for that,
but I know that these are things that every artist worries about.
Someone has to do it.
I mean, I hope no one misunderstands me,
but if they do, it's okay.
I hope it helps improve both platforms
and both our communication.
Tezos is such a grassroots thing that we do need that.
And without it, we can't go forward no matter what and it's
a good thing you started building now in the darkest bear market thing with tezos crumbling
down and i like i like i like that really and then yeah we're not seeing and also parax we're
not seeing a bear market on scurpee our numbers just keep going up and up and up, and it's only an invite-only
mode.
So if you're an artist or a collector, it's definitely where you want to be.
People are having so much fun there.
So we're definitely not seeing that.
We're seeing a thriving ecosystem that didn't exist on Tezos a month ago that is now existing
on Tezos that hopefully becomes only more and more thriving and brings more and more
attention.
You're an optimist.
You don't see the drama that goes around.
I'm having real fun.
I just keep working because none of that.
I also think that drama can get kind of centric.
Like the algorithm notices what you look at.
And so it feeds you more of that and you can get yourself caught into an
echo chamber.
I find,
I find it enjoyable after three and a half
years once.
But Parax, I see it.
I see it.
I'm a human too and I have feelings and I see stuff
sometimes people like, they've never even talked to me.
They've never met me and they
were like against Scurpy and won't use it even though
I built this all.
I know.
That doesn't feel great as well, right?
You got your share of drama a couple of years ago. I know. That doesn't feel great as well, right? But you just have to. You got your share of drama a couple of years ago.
I know.
So you just keep moving forward, Parax, and you just try to do your best always, the best you always can.
There's nothing else you can do but that, right?
It's a tough thing.
Just show up every day with that passion that you've got, man, and we believe you.
You couldn't pick a cover space if you tried.
It's the most competitive, hardest space you could come to the world.
If you're an artist, it's hard to stick out.
If you're trying to build a dap here, it's expensive.
It's time-consuming.
It's hard to get users.
It's hard to get them to interact.
This whole thing is hard.
So don't come here if you're not looking to play ball.
Man, we got you all fired up.
Or if you're not ready to ask thorny questions, you know,
and, you know, you ready to ask thorny questions you know and you know
you can ask us thorny questions i mean no builder asks uh thorny questions why not
we are all in it equally i mean a lot of times unfortunately those questions do seem to be
just outside the periphery.
It's not that they're not being thought about,
but they're not in the immediate view.
And sometimes they aren't important, sometimes they are,
but they do need to be asked.
Yeah, I believe so. I believe so.
And it's not, I mean, meant to harm anyone.
It's meant to clarify everything and everyone feels safer
and get to bond and understand one another better.
That's where I stand all the time.
Absolutely.
And there's no right answer to any of these questions.
It's whether or not we feel like you've answered it in a confident manner.
We believe in you.
Of course.
Yeah, that's why I ask.
I want to see how the other one has thought of it.
I mean, yeah.
I don't know.
Well, Timmy, I want to thank you so much, man.
We are over by 11 minutes.
I promised you an hour, and I stole another 11 minutes of your life,
especially on your busiest day of the month or the week.
I apologize.
Busiest day ever, Blank.
Busiest day ever.
So I'm going to go ahead.
Folks, I appreciate you all so much. We're going to wrap up this this week's episode of Tuesday, Tuesday. Big thanks to Timmy over at Skirpy for joining us and giving us a look at what you're building. It is always exciting to see new ideas taking shape on Tezos.
And of course, if you know someone doing great work in the community, whether it's building, teaching, creating, or organizing, don't forget that you can nominate them for the Tezos Community Rewards Program over at tezoscommons.org slash rewards.
We'll be back next Tuesday with another episode.
Until then, folks, stay curious, stay connected, and we'll catch you next time.
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